Scan Magazine | Architecture Profile of the Month | Denmark
The house opens up when you enter and lets the weather and ocean in.
Architecture Profile of the Month, Denmark
At the heart of MATTERS With a focus on beautiful, sustainable and creative design in harmony with nature and context, MATTERS Architects continue to cement their place on the world stage, receiving national and international accolades. Each innovative project is carefully researched and curated, and allowed to take on a life and a language of its own.
quality of a space rather than completely erasing its soul to be replaced by the latest trend. “It is about finding the pieces of the puzzle and solving it in the most beautiful and usable way,” says Holst.
By Trine Jensen-Martin | Photos: Helene Høyer Mikkelsen
MATTERS is the brainchild of co-founders and architects Marie-Louise Holst and Lotte Rønne. With a wealth of experience between them, and a shared passion for social sustainability and what they call “place-making”, they founded MATTERS in 2014. They have a distinctive approach to their work, which is firmly anchored in a respect for nature and for the essence of each individual project. 112 | Issue 138 | January 2022
The sense of a place “Our starting point is that no place has a prescribed language,” Marie-Louise Holst explains. “Each project must find its own identity. It is a game of both fitting in and being new.” One of the biggest challenges for them is to combine what is already there with genuinely new ideas, and enhancing the
At MATTERS, they want to get a feel for the core of any project at hand, and for the sense of the place to find itself in the process. This is architecture and design where mindfulness is a part of the very fabric of the company, in human and contextual as well as design terms. A winter bather’s paradise One example of art and beauty working together alongside functionality and con-